First Things RSS Feed - Eric Seddon https://www.firstthings.com/author/eric-seddon en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:53:52 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/eric-seddon 60 Washington Irving and the Specter of Cultural Continuity https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2009/02/washington-irving-and-the-spec https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2009/02/washington-irving-and-the-spec Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 Generations ago, around the time of Stanley Williams’ 1935 study of the man and his works, intellectual fashion made one of its less attractive lurches towards ignorance when it decided that Washington Irving was no genius, but a rather light-weight and decidedly second-rate writer. This gross miscalculation has only recently been adjusted by saner minds, especially those of Andrew Burstein and Brian Jay Jones, whose recent books have begun to irrigate the scholarly desert.

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